Monthly Archives: April 2018

It must be quite difficult to make a competent side scrolling beat ‘em up in this day and age. Despite being a dominant genre in the 90’s thanks to behemoths like Golden Axe, Streets of Rage or Final Fight, it seems that either developers are shying away from the genre […]

Dusty Raging Fist – PS4 Review

April 29, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Dusty / Fist / ps4 / Raging / review / Rusty more like by Grizz

Devious Dungeon by Spanish coders Ratalaika Games is a port of their popular 2014 iOS game and is out now as a cross-buy title for PS4 and Vita. This simple rogue-lite platformer tasks you with saving a kingdom from an ancient evil that lurks in the catacombs under the king’s castle […]

Devious Dungeon – PS4/Vita Review

April 29, 2018 in PS4 / Vita tagged 2d / devious dungeon / Pixel art / platformer / retro / rogue legacy / rogue-lite by Richie

League of Evil is a port of a 2011 iOS game that for some reason has only just made the leap to home consoles. Its obvious inspiration is a super meaty game featuring a boy. Given they’re almost contemporaries it’s hardly surprising. There, glad we got that out of the […]

League of Evil – PS4 Review

April 25, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged #retro #mobileport #notsupermeatboy #honest by Ian

Sega’s Yakuza series has been going strong for over a decade now with players in the West now receiving the games at a steady rate. After a small delay, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life finally takes to store shelves with a new engine under the hood. Long-time series protagonist […]

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life – PS4 Review

April 25, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged action / adventure / crime drama / japan / open world / sega / yakuza 6 the song of life by Mike

Megadimension Neptunia VII released back in early 2016 to pretty good reviews. The series has no doubt improved since the first release, but we’ve also seen re-releases and spin offs trying to capitalise on the popularity of the characters. According to the wiki there have only been four main entries […]

Megadimension Neptunia VIIR – PS4/PSVR Review

April 23, 2018 in PS4 / PSVR tagged anime / dating sim / hyperdimesion / jrpg / megadimension / neptunia / scouting / summer lesson by Gareth

It’s not very often I review something that’s already had a consensus form. Iron Galaxy’s latest venture is one of those cases. A game whose quality is at odds with its price tag, just what does Extinction have to offer? First things first, Extinction‘s inspirations are worn proudly with Attack […]

Extinction – PS4 Review

April 17, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / combat / extinction / iron galaxy / platforming / titans by Mike

Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs is an unashamed love letter to the golden age of JRPGs, bringing to mind the Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden games to name a few, especially in terms of character and world design. After a successful crowdfunding campaign and an encouraging debut on Steam, Regalia […]

Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs (Royal Edition) – PS4 Review

April 17, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged #regalia #jprg #challenging by Ian

It’s a turbulent time for gun politics. On the one hand you have those that would bemoan the idea of owning a firearm for obvious and valid reasons, down to the very nature of what weapons are designed to do. On the other, you have those that are devout and […]

The American Dream – PSVR Review

April 14, 2018 in PSVR / Reviews tagged debate / guns / PSVR / review / The American Dream by Grizz

Trying to bring the nostalgia of the arcade onto PSVR, Ivanovich Games has released Operation Warcade. Upon starting the game you’re in a reasonably busy arcade. People are playing the surrounding games but you can only interact with what’s in front of you, a cabinet with an Uzi attached to […]

Operation Warcade – PSVR Review

April 13, 2018 in PSVR tagged arcade / bad graphics / light gun / medals / operation warcade / operation wolf by Gareth

Rogue Aces is a cheery little arcade shooter that comes to us from Infinite State Games who previously brought us the addictive as crack-flavoured Kit Kats dodge ’em up Don’t Die, Mr Robot and is, as the name suggests, an aeroplane-based affair. You play as a pilot in a time […]

Rogue Aces – PS4 Review

April 11, 2018 in PS4 / Vita tagged aeroplanes / arcade / luftrausers / rogue aces / shoot em up by Richie

You don’t tend to see a lot of console real-time strategy, do you? Even when you do, controllers don’t seem to map nicely to keyboard and mouse so you wind up with something simplified and compromised. There have been rare success stories and Passtech Games are hoping Masters of Anima […]

Masters of Anima – PS4 Review

April 10, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Fantasy / golems / masters of anima / minions / passtech games / real time strategy by Mike

PSVR is still finding its feet a little and as it does a lot of the games on offer for the platform tend to fall into the wave shooter genre and Time Carnage by Welsh dev crew Wales Interactive is the latest. This game is VR only and requires dual Move controllers […]

Time Carnage – PSVR Review

April 9, 2018 in PSVR tagged fps / PSVR / time carnage / vr / wave shooter by Richie